The woman who died of the plague in Shelekhov worked as a lab technician and broke a test tube containing the infectious agent. About 200 of her contacts have been quarantined. October 2, 2026· The gi...

I'm becoming increasingly concerned and more than a little disturbed by the Liberal government's current emphasis on fossil fuel development...

A month ago we replaced our 8-year-old 2018 Hyundai Elantra GT with a new 2026 Hyundai IONIQ 5 (Preferred Long Range AWD) EV.  TL; DR: We l...

Today, instead of featuring a single recording or performance, I'm featuring a website. And it's a good one. MOSHPIT   is an archive of live...

Back in the before times, a couple of years before I retired, management at the TSX decided to change the office systems from SharePoint and...

Today's musical treat is an album that I've been trying to find for several years, Still Inside by The Tony Rice Unit. Although best known ...

Timothy Snyder has posted another thoughtful essay, written from Ukraine on the eve of the 25th anniversary of 9/11. It's about our respons...

Link What is a catastrophic power outage? • Events beyond modern experience that exhaust or exceed mutual aid capabilities • Likely to be ...

A Substack post by Mary Geddry last week hit a chord with me. In Gradually, Then Suddenly she looks at the effects that climate change is h...

When I stepped down after 21 years in parliament, I wasn’t planning to wage a full-time resistance war against Donald Trump.

YouTube's algorithm keeps presenting me with some real gems, and today's post is one of them: Miles David Live in Berlin 1969 . I don't know...

Now that trade talks between Canada and the US have broken off, it seems that we are now in a full scale trade war. Before I get into the he...

I'm trying to up my reading game, spending more time reading (which includes having the book read to me by Google Play or the Kinde app), an...

Today's musical treat is something very special, especially if you are Canadian. Live July 22 - August 20, 2016 is a live album culled from...

Styles are one of Microsoft Word's better features but Microsoft has never made them particularly easy to use and especially never easy to m...

The Nieman Journalism Lab has published an article showing how several Pulitizer Prize-winning journalists used AI tools in their work.   A...

This week's musical treat is from Girma Woldemichael, an Ethiopian-Canadian saxophonist living in Toronto. I was completely unfamiliar with ...

Last week, I had to be up in North Toronto so I took a ride on the new Eglinton LRT. I got off the bus on the southeast corner of  Avenue Ro...

I recently broke down and subscribed to YouTube Premium because the ads were getting too annoying. A subscription to YouTube Music Premium w...

A dangerous collision of storm surge, torrential rain, and sea level rise threatens to overwhelm communities from Texas to Maine.

It's time for another compilation of articles about the continuing frosty relationship between Canada and the US. At least the Gordie Howe b...

West Philly's Emily Wilson, who penned a highly acclaimed translation of the epic poem in 2017, is having a big summer.

This is part of a series of posts to feature articles that make verifiable predictions. My intent is to review them at a later date to see h...

Word lets us down when it comes to viewing a document's styles and how they link together.The only way to see a detailed list of styles is to Print them!&nb

This week's musical treat once again features the music of Philip Glass. It's a live performance by pianist Anton Batagov of Glass's music f...

I'm starting a new series of posts to feature articles that make verifiable predictions. My intent is to review them at a later date to see ...

Today's musical treat is from Don Was, a Detroit-based musician and producer who, over the last few years, has been playing bass with Bob We...

Canada and the US celebrated their respective national anniversaries this week, so it seems like a good time to post another set of articles...

July 4, 2026 — Your 250th. We didn’t forget. We never will.

The Wars of Marcus Aurelius and Donald Trump

Today is Canada Day, the celebration of our nationhood. I'll probably watch the Blue Jays game in the afternoon as they play in their Canada...

I've been reading Geddry's Newsletter for some time now. It's a mother-daughter news column written by Mary Geddry and Shanley Hurt. Recent...

This week's musical treat features Neil Young and the Chrome Hearts. It's a concert film from last year's tour called Corduroy Plants .  Fro...

Stanley Kubrick is one of those directors

Climate change is making extremely dangerous heat waves like this one more common.

Nancy and I headed into a very lively Toronto last night to see the Philip Glass Ensemble at Koerner Hall. I've been a fan of Glass's music ...

Today's musical treat isn't an album or a concert but instead an app: Relisten .  I have been a fan and a user of the Internet Archive's Liv...

On Sunday, Nancy and I drove over to Whitby to see Disclosure Day at the IMAX theatre. Even though we could walk up to the local Crappyplex...

Since I've been featuring jazz saxophonists here recently, I thought it was time to post some performances from the great Pharoah Sanders. I...

I've been a user of Adobe Photoshop and Lightroom for more than 15 years when I bought my first DSLR, a Nikon D5200. I've since moved on to ...

Sadly, the great jazz saxophonist, Sonny Rollins, died recently. I never got to see him perform but have listened to and enjoyed many of hi...

Is this ‘art’ fair? Sale of AI generated ‘imagining’ of iconic Ansel Adams photo at New York art fair generates its own controversy